I am about ready (2 months-4 months) to migrate all of my
software RAID volumes over to a hardware raid solution (for
easier hot-swapping, and higher level of hardware fault tolerance))
I am looking for something that:
1) has a minimum of 2 (preferred 3+) seperate scsi channels
BOTH internal and externally usuable.
2) Can handle LVD & Ultra 3 devices
3) Has good support under Linux, and not just RedHat. (We roll
our own distributions here so anything with kernel support
or a driver add-in et al).
4) Has good high-end performance that would be able to handle
lots of random seeks (read/write) under RAID5. (one primary
system would be for a RAID5 news spool).
I know that Mylex has the ExtremeRaid 2000 which looks good, but
only 2 internal channels and no support yet under Linux. DPT
I've heard has a SmartRaid VI card that looks good but don't
know about Linux support or any other problems that might be
with it. (Or performance for that matter).
Does anyone have any suggestions or opinions that might help?
Steve
